PimPamPum~Bubblr

Do you remember the times when we see our teachers cut some pictures from the newspaper or in the magazine for us to use in the classroom??

Need better pictures from around the world?

Fancy having a cool presentation rather than the plain traditional one?

Worry not!!! Bubblr is here to solve everything!

Bubblr is another cool website that we can use as part of our teaching process to make it more fun and exciting for the students. It is basically a tool that can grab all the images in flickr for us to generate a presentation by using our own text. By using Bubblr learners could come out with new style of wacky presentation that will upgrade the learning standards into the next level.Plus,teachers would not have to worry in trying so hard to search for real pictures for the students as flickr will do everything for you in just a blink of an eye. How facinating is that!!.Rather than having a plain text of words in our slide, it is much exciting to create a comic like presentation that is full of colours and real life pictures describe by our own text.

It is tool that is not only suitable for learners of all ages but also a magnificient way to change on how we deal with presentation in class. Students are motivated to display thier own creativity of making thier best presentation and slowly improving thier writing skill at the same time.Bubblr can also be used as a speaking activity to test the students capability to speak using the target language spontaneously with the help of the pictures that they have choosen.

How to use Bubblr:
1.write the topic of the things that you want to present (eg:food)
2.select the pictures
3.add some text/describe the pictures
4.click done and you're presentation is ready

The good things about Bubblr

• free
• easy,quick,and fun
• thousands of real pictures taken by real people from around the world to choose from
• suitable for speaking and writing activity.
• motivate the students and allow them to be more creative
• encaurage personalisation-less stress and learners will be more open to their teachers and friends
• learn with style and stimulate the learners to keep experimenting with thier works.
• can be used in the classroom or even as homework 
• promote autonomous learning

Some limitations of using Bubblr:

• the bubbles are not transparent and it might distract the images.
• students might not be using much language if there is no proper requirements or instructions by the teachers beforehand.
• the size of the bubble restricts the amount of words that can be used in the pictures.
• not suitable for the advance learners.

There is also another websites that is similar with Bubblr in terms of how it works if you fancy having something different. Why not try Bookr.